bornt
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Apparently born + -t; compare kilt (“killed”).
Verb
[edit]bornt
- (Geordie and some other dialects) simple past and past participle of born
- 1983 September 15, Woody Guthrie, Bound for Glory: The Hard-Driving, Truth-Telling, Autobiography of America's Great Poet-Folk Singer, Penguin Group, →ISBN, page 32:
- "Oughtta been bornt sooner," the little runt piped up.
- 2017 October 3, Rivers Solomon, An Unkindness of Ghosts, Akashic Books, →ISBN:
- they might as well not have been bornt at all. […] Maybe we all should’ve bornt ourselves in another time, another place.
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]bornt
- Obsolete form of burnt.
- 1551, Samuel, William (fl. 1551-1569), The abridgemente of goddes statutes in myter:
- Next to that went Israell forth the Madianits to kyll / And slue ye males & bornt ther towns and led the rest at wyll.
- 1559, John Bradford, The complaynt of veritie:
- accept this bornt sacrifcie O heauenly Father,
- 1575, Thomas Churchyard, The firste parte of Churchyardes chippes contayning twelue seuerall labours:
- And how that Warres bryngs wo and waest, and leaues a kyngdom baer. The people spoyld, the howsis bornt, the freends and neighbour slayn:
- 1551, Samuel, William (fl. 1551-1569), The abridgemente of goddes statutes in myter: